Champlain and Rouses Point

Champlain and Rouses Point are a pair of adjacent villages in Northern New York on the U.S.-Canada border. The villages, 20 miles (30 km) north of Plattsburgh and 40 miles (60 km) south of Montreal, are the northernmost in the state of New York.

Understand

Due to its proximity to the border, the area served as a staging point during the War of 1812. Plattsburgh, a city 20 miles to the south, had fended off a British-Canadian attack shortly after dawn on September 11, 1814, in the final days of the war.

The first, un-named attempt at constructing a U.S. fort directly on the border in 1816 became known as "Fort Blunder" as a surveying error placed the fortifications ΒΎ mile into Canadian territory. After the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 placed Island Point in the U.S. a second fort, Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain), was built between 1844 and 1871. The guns from the second fortress were dismantled in the early 1900s.

Get in

By car

I-87, from New York City and Albany, terminates at the border crossing in Champlain. Immediately after the border, Autoroute 15 heads north to Montreal and the Laurentians. US-11 passes through both Champlain and Rouses Point, before becoming Quebec Route 223 northbound to ContrecΕ“ur/Sorel.

By train

See also: Rail travel in the United States

By boat

Get around

US-11 links the villages.

See

Eat

Go next

Routes through Champlain and Rouses Point
Montreal ← Saint-Lambert ← ←  N  S  β†’ Plattsburgh β†’ Albany (Rensselaer)
Montreal ← Lacolle ← becomes ← ←  N  S  β†’ Plattsburgh β†’ Albany
END ←  W  E  β†’ Grand Isle β†’ Burlington
END ←  N  S  β†’ Plattsburgh β†’ Albany
Contrecoeur ← Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ← becomes ← ←  N  S  β†’ Malone β†’ Watertown


Champlain (village), New York
Rouses Point, New York
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